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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (763)	5/22/2000 4:31:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (1) of 1397

Re: 5/18/00 - New Haven Police Chief Mel Wearing refuses to play the patsy New Haven Police Chief Mel Wearing refuses to play the patsy Published 05/18/00 As a murder coverup scandal continued growing this week, New Haven Police Chief Melvin Wearing refused to play the patsy. Wearing angrily denies a charge reportedly leveled by his chief of detectives: that Wearing called off a murder investigation for budgetary reasons. "I would never tell anybody to stop an investigation. That's ridiculous," Wearing asserted in an interview. "I'm a professional law enforcement official. I've arrested my cousins. My record speaks for itself. Everything will come out at the grand jury." A state grand jury is investigating whether top New Haven cops covered up crucial evidence in a 1996 murder case. In that case, police believe North Havener Philip Cusick was shot to death in New Haven's Fair Haven neighborhood, allegedly by a drug dealer. Police say they have no reason to believe Cusick was involved in a drug transaction. In 1998, New Haven detectives taped an interview of a Fair Haven gang member who said he witnessed the murder--and identified a fellow drug dealer as the murderer. A supervisor kept a transcript of the interview in his desk drawer. The tape has disappeared. The department apparently never notified North Haven police, who were also investigating the case, about the interview. The alleged killer was never interviewed or pursued. In addition to the state grand jury, New Haven police have launched their own belated internal investigation. Last week, two cops at the center of the controversy--Capt. Brian Sullivan, the department's chief of detectives, and his deputy, Ed Kendall--gave statements to the department's internal affairs unit. According to a report in Tuesday's New Haven Register, Sullivan claimed that Chief Wearing told him to stop the investigation because of budgetary constraints. Kendall reportedly claimed to internal affairs that Sullivan told him to close out the Cusick investigation and hand all material over to North Haven police--but that Kendall "forgot" for at least a year that the transcript lay in his desk. Sullivan wouldn't comment for this story. Kendall couldn't be reached. To an outsider, it may seem beyond belief that police expect the public to believe a) that they could "forget" about an eyewitness account of an unsolved murder; or b) that they would close a murder investigation for budgetary reasons. But it's hard to prove that someone didn't "forget" something. Forgetting isn't a crime. Intentionally covering up evidence is. It's butt-covering and scapegoating season at 1 Union Ave. Coming next: Capt. Sullivan's dog ate his homework? --Paul Bass newmassmedia.com

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